I went and saw Stealth today, mainly for novelty. Other films have dealt with the ‘AI gone haywire’ genre much better than this one.
This movie was dumb for a large number of reasons, but most notably the ‘excessive explosions’ factor. Though honestly, they’ve taken it so far it was actually quite funny.
I recall an episode of The simpsons in which a tanker truck carrying MILK serves off the road and explodes in a collossal fireball I never thought an actual movie could get more over-the-top than that. After all, the simpsons is making fun of that fact in movies. Boy was I surprised!
-A convoy of 3 trucks is driving down a road. 2 missiles destroy 2 of the trucks, in rapid sucession. Then the third one blows up I found it rather funny, like maybe they used their ‘steath missile’ on that one or something.
-A guard tower gets hit by a missile, blows up. Then the building next to it blows up. Then the chain link fence blows up
Among other things that didn’t add up
The scene where Jamie Fox’s character tries to shoot down Eddie bothered me. He fires off a missile, then crashes into the cliff face. What happened to the missile?! I was kind of at a loss about that aspect.
Realizing he has to cover his tracks quick, the badguy general tells the Russians the heat signature of the Talon and Eddie’s engines. Didn’t he just comprimise the entire project of both jets by doing this?! Obviously Eddie was a wash, but the Talon was still pretty effective. However by giving up the head signature to the Russians, he just screwed over the advantage of some multibillion dollar stealth plane.
Some iffy geography that didn’t add up quite right to me. Ganon didn’t have enough fuel to return to the carrier, but he did have enough to land in friggin Alaska? I thought the Abe Lincoln was in the Phillipine sea.
I saw it on Friday…good 'ole mindless summer action movie, IMHO. I LOVED it (because it had planes in it), and that’s the ONLY reason I loved it. The dialoge and storyline were cheesy as Hell. I cringed at most of the non-flying scenes.
I did catch one blatant verbal error during a flying sequence:
during the dogfight sequence with the SU-37s, Lt Gannon (Lucas) says ‘Releasing chafe and flares’…uh, Mr. Lucas, that’s supposed to be CHAFF!
I’ll forgive the other ‘innacuracies’ as this is just a movie and not a documentary.
And, BTW…a bonus:
After the credits roll, there is a ‘bonus scene’…nothing huge. The scene shows EDI (in a bizillion pieces after ‘sacrificing’ himself to save Wade and Gannon). However, the ‘core’ is still intact and it lights up. Yep, EDI LIVES!!!
We just got home from seeing it and I was appropriately impressed.
Another plot inconsistency was whenthe pilots arrived on the carrier, each of their rooms were decorated with personal photos and the like. They just got there, for crying out loud. No time to decorate.
And some of the cheese just got annoying, especially when Gannon and Wade finally connected when he was rescuing her and they stand looking lovingly into each other’s eyes, in the middle of a friggin’ firefight. Puhleeze. If that was a rescue, even a half second delay could mean the difference between life and death.
How much of the film is “kewl scenes of airplanes flying” vs. “boring scenes of actors trying to act”? Because I might want to see this film if there’s lots of the former, but the trailer gave the impression that there’s more of the latter…?
I’d have to watch the scene (haven’t seen the movie yet) but it’s within the realm of possibility that burning shrapnel and debris from one of the previous trucks hit something blowupable in the third truck, ie: fuel tanks, ammunition, the material they use to build the chainlink fences in a later example you give…
*Haven’t seen the movie yet (or, likely, ever) but I did see this webcomic today, and I have to ask: is there any context to the movie that makes the quotes in the first panel even slightly less stupid than they appear? Any at all?
The rampant italicization was because Incubus omitted the “end italic” in the OP. Somehow, that carried over into the later posts. It’s happened from time to time, although it’s not supposed to. Sometimes, I swear, software does have a mind of its own.
Anyhow, I have edited the /i and the problem has gone away.
Could someone spoil part of this movie for me? I gather from the trailers that the AI in the plane goes haywire and they have to try to subdue it (or something). What I want to know is how an AI fighter jet manages to refuel enough to be a menace. I mean, it could fly basically one mission, and then it’d be out of gas, right?
Yes, the AI plane would need to refuel and the pilots realise that, so they scramble the access code to the tanker (which is a giant unmanned ‘blimp’ type refuelling vehicle). The AI jet would not be able to take on fuel. However, when it flies up to the refueller and is ‘denied’ any fuel, it simply blasts off the drogue on the fuel hose and goes in and gets refuelled. This also causes the fuel to leak from the damaged hose and sets of the ‘ring of fire’ scene
I don’t want to give everything away, but the trailers do NOT do this movie justice. Things are not what they appear to be, sometimes.
Even an explosion the size of a football field would probably look like a pinpoint of light coming on and then going off… I wonder why NASA would even be interested.
More likely they had to notify the FAA. I can imagine the director getting this garbled, and I can also see him accidentally taking seriously someone’s BS story about having to notify NORAD because it might appear to be a launch signature of an ICBM… but things blow up all the time in America without filing warnings ahead of time.
I never thought an actual movie could get more over-the-top than that. After all, the simpsons is making fun of that fact in movies. Boy was I surprised!
I found it rather funny, like maybe they used their ‘steath missile’ on that one or something.
